By William Bradford Huie, PBS, 27 February 2006, originally
an article in Look, ca. 1955. Am account of the
slaying in Mississippi of a Negro youth named Emmett Till. Last
September in Sumner, Miss., a petit jury found the youth's
admitted abductors not guilty of murder. In November, in
Greenwood, a grand jury declined to indict them for kidnapping.

By Monica Moorehead, Workers World, 20 May
2004. Till's lynching in 1955, one of countless
thousands in the semi-enslaved South, was viewed by many as
a major catalyst for the launching of the historic civil
rights struggle.